“Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you!” (Merchant of Venice, III.v.45)

Well, guess we don’t need the debate, now…

The Drudge Report has fired off some Flash Traffic with a bit of good news: we don’t need to have the debate tonight!

The Obama campaign was kind enough to release a full complement of talking points to the press, 12 hours before the debate has even started. The talking points memo comes in an email from Sean Smith, the Obama campaign’s communications director for Pennsylvania. As Drudge notices (and I’ve been noticing all day),

The memo oddly mirrors much of the main press analysis and theme of the current campaign.

Who’da thunk it. Man, they don’t even try to hide it anymore…they just keep a “marching orders” email list to send to their press contacts, and wait for the parroting to begin. I’m halfway to hoping Obama loses just for the sake of keeping the press from thinking they can fix an election.

View the text of the memo as reported by Drudge, and further links, below the break.

* Obama has shown steady leadership during this crisis and offered concrete solutions to move the country forward – and his Rescue Plan for the Middle Class builds on the plans to strengthen the economy and rebuild the middle class that he’s laid out over the course of this campaign.

* Already in this campaign, he’s unveiled plans to give 95 percent of workers and their families a tax cut, eliminate income taxes for seniors making under $50,000, bring down the cost of health care for families and businesses; and create millions of new jobs by investing in the renewable energy sources.

* John McCain has been erratic and unsteady since this crisis began – staggering from position to position and trying to change the subject away from the economy by launching false character attacks.